If you remember how last year ended or this one began, maybe many of us thought we would have so many opportunities this year to put even our liquid HIVE to work during these (often then) volatility days.
I made a little profit then, but not nearly as much as I could have made...
Since then, I think I missed one because my sell orders was a little too high and when I noticed it, it was on the descending path, and didn't want to sell (although in hindsight it was still profitable to do it then too), and then for a while I didn't want to adjust my sell orders because I thought the price would eventually go back above those levels and I would earn more... Except the bad market conditions continued, and I missed a few other opportunities, in the short term, which in this market, appear to be all we get, besides accumulating.
So, during last night two of my small sell orders finally got hit.
The smaller one is a ~24% gain in a few days since I bought at 0.189. From the moment I set the sell order, I had the intention to get back the same amount of HBD and keep the profit HIVE, and move the HBD to savings for my HBD goal, which I did.
The bigger 500 HIVE sell order also got hit at 0.235, and this one was purely for speculation purposes, to buy back lower, more HIVE. Initially I set a lower limit buy order and wanted to wait for the market to return to that level. But since I am still unsure where the price settles near term after yesterday's tariff news, I decided that taking a smaller profit is better than no profit from this particular trade.
So, I bought back HIVE with only 7.21% profit. My decision was prompted by the fact that BTC seemed to push higher, but well... right after I made my trade, the intra-day trend reversed. Of course, these are minor fluctuations, but for a trade like this, it can make a difference between 7% or 10% or 15% in one day depending on the decision you make. Either way, not great, but a profit is a profit on the second trade too.
Overall, that's some 54.3 HIVE profit made with around 595 HIVE involved, that's 9.12%. Could have been better or worse! Basically, the curation APR for the entire year with the same amount of HP. And it could have been nothing at all if no limit orders got hit.